Tuesday, April 13, 2004

VoIP and Watermelon Seeds

by alec on April 13, 2004

Via Jeff Pulver: Tim McElligott’s The Tao of VoIP.  Short, but inciteful…

to be anything more than a cheap, commoditized blending of voice and data into a stew of packetized content, large service providers need to utilize platforms that can spit out targeted application for very specific customer needs like watermelon seeds.

Eating my words — Leafs vs. Sens Game 3

by alec on April 13, 2004

Wow.  That’s the only appropriate response.  The Sens put on an amazing display, with shot after shot on the Toronto net, but Belfour was impenetrable.  That was a heartbreaker. 

SQL Server on my latop? WTF!

April 13, 2004

Sneaky Microsoft has done it again.  I just installed Office 2003 Professional Edition.  It has a slick, beautifully crafted user interface.  Typical of the Office team’s attention to detail, it has ironed out all kinds of problems with the old product.  Word now has a viewer mode that brings up documents in beautiful cleartype text.  Outlook has [...]

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Cable consortium?

April 13, 2004

From Light Reading: Cable Cadre Talks VOIP (Light Reading). This, of course, is massive news.  Cable networks, coast to coast, in a cooperative VoIP network.  It’s the moral, if not technical, equivalent of the old regional bells model, with Neustar in the role that AT&T held. Plus ça change, plus cest la mème.

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Vonage in Canada

April 13, 2004

From Om Malik — Vonage goes to Canada. Of course, you read it here almost two weeks ago . Om writes: Vonage announced that it is going to offer its service to Canadians and will charge them pretty much the same price as what it is charging in the US. It is going to put [...]

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